NOT IRISH, BUT I PLAYED ALONG

Wednesday was Kev's 42nd birthday. I decided the housework could wait, and Kev and I went out for dinner instead. Oh, it was SO good! I had my usual, a filet, but I decided to spend the extra 10 bucks to have a lobster tail, too. It was so worth it.

After that we met up with Seven's parents at another restaurant for a drink. I didn't call them to go to dinner because we decided so last minute, and as it turned out, they had decided to go out, too. Then it was out to the casino for quite a few hours of playtime. We came home dead even, so that was nice. I'm always happy just to not lose.

Since we were out and about, I didn't get to do my nails last night.   I honestly had planned on doing a shamrock water marble, but I just never got around to it. I did this on Monday night so I'd have a St. Patrick's Day themed mani for work but then took it off on Tuesday.

I love my green base on this one. It's Nubar Reclaim, and it's a very pretty true green holo. I believe they've discontinued it, which is stupid, but I have two bottles. So I'm good.

I went through all of my stamping plates, and apparently the only shamrocky-clover thing I have is on this Fab Ur Nail FUN13 plate. I find it hard to believe I don't have any others, but I looked through them all twice and didn't see any. I find that weird. I just used Essie Good as Gold for the stamping.

I wasn't really feeling it so not a lot of effort went into this one. It was nice to use green and not have stained fingers, though. Thank you for that, Nubar. After the whole green fingers fiasco from that Julep holo, I've been afraid to do anything green.

If you've been out drinking green beer tonight, I hope you had a great St. Paddy's. And that you played safely and didn't drive.

HERE'S YOUR WATER MARBLE, MARTHA!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, all you Irish folk. 

Yesterday was Kev's birthday, and I thought we were going to have over a week together. I love when that happens. But work called him today, and he decided to pick up an extra four day trip, so now I won't see him again until Saturday night.  The extra money is nice, but I surely do miss him when he leaves.

Sometimes it sucks to like your husband.

I've been so busy at work I was starting to wonder if I'd ever get around to posting this one before the "holiday" was over.  A few days ago Martha from Polish Makes Me Happy posted a picture of a shamrock water marble. She kind of hinted that one of us that does marbles should do it. 

I actually did this two years ago, but it didn't turn out so great. So I figured I'd give it another shot.

 

I remember when I did it the first time the hardest part was finding a couple of greens that would marble. I sort of had the same problem this time around. Eventually I got China Glaze Exotic Encounters and Square Hue Flower Power to cooperate to make my four leaf clovers.

It took a few tries on a couple of the nails, and I would have like to redo a couple again, but my China Glaze wasn't full to start with. Once a polish gets down to below half full, I don't like using it for marbles. While they are fun and cool to look at, they certainly can be a bit wasteful.

I do love the colors on this one. Very St. Patrick's Day-ish. I'd like to do some more water marbles because I'm kind of in the mood for them, but I can't seem to decide on a color scheme. I'll just have to keep thinking.

Enjoy yourselves if you're going out to drink some green beer this evening, and don't forget to not drink and drive. For realz.

SHAMROCKS

Well, I give up on the glasses. Considering how cheap glasses are, maybe I'll just buy new ones. I'm over it. All my pan covers look awesome, though!

The only other exciting thing I did was laundry. So not so much a "fun" four days off, but at least I accomplished something.

Now I'm just waiting for the hubster to get home around 9. He went out with his brother last night so I'm wondering what kind of shape he'll be in. I'm guessing tired. My bet is he'll stay up long enough to watch Walking Dead and Talking Dead and then go to bed. Nice rhyming there, hey?

Not a drop of Irish in this gal, but I did do a couple of green manicures. I did this one yesterday.

I got a couple of new stamping plates, FUN 13 and 15. The images are barely big enough for my thumbs, but they are pretty good sized otherwise. I did manage to make it work on my thumbs. Nobody ever looks at those anyway.

The light green on this one is Essie Absolutely Shore. I used the shamrock design from the FUN 13 plate and stamped with Barielle Date Night.

I like the color combo of the super light green with the true green. And I do think shamrocks are cute.

That's about it for tonight. I just don't have anything worthwhile to say. My brain appears to be in lockdown for some reason.

Maybe the ammonia fumes finally got to me.

MURPHY'S LAW, a/k/a MY LIFE IN A NUTSHELL

Ahhhh, it's just a never ending thing. I arrived home from work to find....A SHOWER!! They weren't finished, and they were still working until almost 8 p.m. That's dedication. 

We were told that it's the hardest shower installation they've ever done. I'm sure they were surprised by that. I, however, was not. They came back this morning to finish trimming out around it, and I have to say, it looks fantastic, all white and shiny and new. I'm not going to post pics yet because it still looks hideous around the base. We have to do some work with that. Well, by "we", I mean Kevin. And then I have to have the flooring dude come out to see if we should have the floor tile extend up to cover the few inches that need covering or if the subway tile would be better.

Add another couple hundred bucks to the flooring guy! I'll more than likely want to puke when I find out the total for the shower install. They originally estimated $500, but since it was so very difficult, that'll probably double. We've gotten to the point now where we don't even shiv a git. Just effing finish it.

Kev was the first one to take a shower after they left. He came out and the first thing he said was, "We have a problem." OMG. Are you joking??? He then tells me we either have hot water or cold water. No warm. Well, isn't that fantastic! Murphy's Law strikes again.  Luckily he was able to figure it out. Somehow they had managed to put the plumbing on the inside of the shower upside down. Good Lord....who does that??

Friday morning they'll be out to install the air conditioning. I wonder what will go wrong with that.

In the meantime, having Griffin around has been fun. Kev has been taking a beating! Of course, he could always say no when Griff wants to jump on his belly. And I do mean "jump". He runs around him, jumps up and keeps right on moving.

I get the better end of the deal. He wanted me to cuddle when I got home from work.

Tinlee makes out pretty good, too.

He was sitting on my lap watching tv when he grabbed my hand and asked me to show him my nails. So adorable when he said, "Oooo, those are really cute!" Quite the character.

This isn't the mani I was wearing at the time. Who knows, maybe he would have hated this one and called 'em ugly. lol

I'm not sure if I had any kind of a reason for this one. It was back in March so maybe it was a half-assed St. Patrick's Day thing. The light green is Julep Shenae, and the Ninja Polish DRK-C stamp was done with Barielle Date Night.

Unimpressed.

I'm trying to think of something to do with them tonight. Probably something in a sad, gloomy color because Tyler, Bob and Griffin are heading back to Illinois tomorrow.

I hate when that happens.

WE'LL JUST CALL THIS IRISH

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Not that I care since I don't have an Irish bone in my body. And I don't like green beer. I never really understood the fascination with this particular holiday. I will admit that years ago I did use it as an excuse to go out and drink a smidge more than usual with my best friend. Of course any excuse back then was excuse enough.

I could tell some great stories about those days, but then I'd have to kill you.

This year our major partying for the day was ordering Dominoes for supper.  Last night we went to dinner at the casino for dinner. It was Kev's 40th birthday, and we figured what better way to mark the occasion than by losing some cash. We did have fun, though!

Now today we've both just been lazy, catching up on over a week's worth of tv because he was gone for 8 days straight.

I didn't bother with a festive manicure to "celebrate", but I did have this green one from a few weeks ago that I'm going to count as a St. Paddy's mani.  

I started with a gradient of Julep Susie, Essie Turquoise & Caicos and Loreal Hyde Park. I used the Mash white stamping polish and the flowers from the Ninja Polish DRK-A plate and then just did the centers with my dotting tool and Square Hue Bikini Beach.

Some of my flowers kind of smeared. Pissed me off but not enough to redo them. 

And that, my friends, wraps up my very non-exciting Monday, March 17th. If you happen to be Irish, I hope you found a way to celebrate the day!